The court lifted the arrest from the accounts of Alexei Navalny

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, at the request of the defense, removed the arrest from the accounts and securities of politician Alexei Navalny. It is reported by TASS.

The defense asked to satisfy the petition to remove the arrest, since all property claims in Navalny's criminal cases were extinguished.

• The arrest on the accounts and securities of the politician was imposed during the investigation of the case of the Yves Rocher company in 2013. At the end of 2014, in this case, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years of probation and a fine of 500 thousand, his brother Oleg - to three and a half years in a penal colony. Both were found guilty of fraud in the field of entrepreneurial activity (parts 2 and 3 of article 159.4 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (paragraphs "a", "b" of part 2 of article 174.1 of the Criminal Code).
• The investigation alleged that Oleg Navalny, at the time when he was in charge of the departments of internal mailings of the Russian Post, persuaded his management to enter into an agreement with Alexei Navalny's company for transportation at an inflated cost. While the transportation itself was allegedly carried out by another enterprise, which was led by an acquaintance of Oleg Navalny. Both defendants in the case pleaded not guilty.
• In 2017, the ECtHR awarded Navalny 76,000 euros and 450,000 rubles in compensation for the verdict in the Yves Rocher case. According to the court, the Russian authorities violated the right to a fair trial.
• In April 2019, the ECtHR awarded Aleksey Navalny 22,000 euros in compensation. The court found that keeping Navalny under house arrest during the investigation was a politically motivated deprivation of liberty.